Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Preference Diversity in a Single-Profile World
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Arrow's Theorem; single-profile;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2008-10-21 (Collective Decision-Making)
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